A Dutch Baby with Boozy Strawberries for the Royal Wedding

Happy Friday to you! I would like to say that today’s post is for Casual Friday, however, after waking up at 5 am to watch the Royal Wedding this morning, this day has been anything but casual! Did you see some of those hats? Geez…thankfully the bride has excellent taste. What were those other women thinking?

Anyway, to celebrate the Royal Wedding (cheers to William and Kate!) and in preparation for Mother’s Day, I have a beautiful Dutch Baby with Boozy Strawberries and an incredible giveaway to tell you about today! It’s been like Christmas around here lately. I can’t wait to see what comes next! 😉

I was so excited when I was asked to review the Magimix by Robot-Coupe 4200XL 14-cup Food Processor (that’s quite the name!). I have always relied on my food processor to do many things in the kitchen. The more that I make our food from scratch, and use almost no processed foods, the more integral this particular appliance becomes in my kitchen. I am now preserving more seasonal and local foods than I ever have before.

Making your own bread is so simple to do.

The food processor mixes everything together in one bowl.

The dough rises twice before you bake it.

I make pastry dough and bread dough with my food processor. I grate cheeses, slice vegetables, and chop nuts. I use it to puree foods (canned tomatoes, soups and sauces). I also use it to make batters (as I did with the Dutch Baby). You can also whip cream with a special attachment that comes with the Magimix by Robot-Coupe 4200XL 14-cup Food Processor. I find that my food processor is an incredible time saver.

Canned tomatoes are quickly pureed to use in sauces.

This is the perfect consistency for making a homemade pasta sauce.

I love that there are three different size bowls to use with this food processor and the size you choose will depend on the job you are doing. There are a selection of blades and discs that are neatly housed in their own case. I was so excited to see that since I tend to misplace those types of things. Now I can keep them stored all in one place.

Grating hard cheeses is done in seconds.

There is nothing better than a good freshly grated Parmesan cheese to top your pasta!

This food processor is a real workhorse. The only thing is doesn’t do is clean itself! When they come out with that model, I definitely want one of those. 😉

About the Author

Gwen Pratesi

Gwen Pratesi is a James Beard Foundation Award Finalist in Journalism and an award-winning travel writer. She is the author and owner of PratesiLiving.com with her husband, coauthor of Southern Heat, and co-owner of On the Road Culinary Adventures, a culinary travel business. She is a bimonthly travel contributor to U.S. News & World Report, a travel expert for SheKnows.com, and freelances for other publications. Her work has also been featured on MSN, Yahoo!, Business Insider, and in Atlanta Homes & Lifestyles Magazine.
She has also been a speaker at several food and writing conferences in the Southeast. Gwen chronicles her love of international travel and experience as a professional home cook on PratesiLiving.com, where she shares the stories of some of the world's most sought after destinations, highly regarded chefs, restaurateurs, farmers, wine and spirits producers, and culinary artisans.
She and her husband reside in Atlanta, Georgia.

I recently got a food processor and I’ve used it to make graham cracker crumbs for some cheesecake cookies. I’m looking forward to using it for other things like pureeing tomatoes, making dough, etc.

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I don’t have a food processor! But I would love one! I would use it for soups, jams, nuts, I would make more doughs. I have come across several recipes recently that use one, sad that I don’t have one!

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I am subscribed to the emails! I have been loving your posts! Going to make this dutch baby this weekend!

I would *love* a food processor! I only have a mini and have the inconvenient chore of borrowing my mom’s when I have a need. I’m taking more and more cooking classes & find the more in depth I get, the more recipes demand a food processor! When I do get one, on the top of my list: bread dough, pizza dough, pasta dough, cookie dough & more dough! Thanks for the opportunity : )

pesto!

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Funny, I was just about to buy a MagiMix. I love that it has 3 bowls, but even more than that is the variety of attachments. If I had one (to replace my 11 cup Cuisinart), I’d continue to make dough, to shred vegetables and that small bowl would get a pesto workout this summer!

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Hi! I just stumbled across your blog when I saw the words “dutch baby” and “boozy strawberries” and I knew you were my kind of gal. As far as the food processor goes, I used to use one when I baked with my mom, but since it broke she refuses to get a new one, saying “it’s fine, we don’t use it that much anyway.” Well let me tell you, I love to bake (I’m studying business currently in hopes of opening my own bakery) and we are constantly making pies, things with chopped nuts, chopped fruit (so annoying to cut up all those apples by hand every Thanksgiving), and so on. I mean we’ve worked around it, but it would be awesome to have one just to save some time.

I love using it for pesto and for crushing cookies for oreo truffles yum!

I am a fan of you on Facebook too!

I also am subscribed your emails!!

Like you, I use a food processor for so many things especially, cookie and bread dough and pesto. I would SO love to have a Magimix, but it has always been a bit out of my price range. I am subscribing to your feed. 🙂

I use my old processor for Gazpacho and roasted butternut squash soup. So good! Thanks

i am now a twitter follower!

what *wouldn’t* i do with a food processor? i’m typing this with wounded fingers thanks to hours spent slicing potatoes and onions for a huge batch of tortillas d espanola yesterday, so the first thing i would do is make another mess of those, quickly and painlessly!

I love a good food processor! Growing up my mom would use her food processor for everything: pestos, doughs, hummus, chopping, grating, pureeing. EVERYTHING! And I have learned to do the same. My food processor is only a 7 cup, so I would love to double my volume!

I subscribed to you through Google Reader!

And, I tweeted about it! (@rachsreciperev)

PS: Recipe looks delicious!

Oh how I would love to own a food processor!!! I would make soo much dough! Bread dough, pastry dough…yum! I would make an insane amount of purees for sauces and dips and whatnot. Baby food! Homemade pet food!! Oh my…I would never leave the kitchen!!

I like to make my mom’s enchilada sauce and guacamole in my food processor. Chicken enchiladas with guacamole = best meal ever!

I only wish that I had a food processor! Unfortunately, as a college student, I have to spend my money on pesky things like textbooks instead of my food obsessions. If I had a food processor, I think that one of the first things I would make would be some chocolate-coconut almond butter. Yummmm

Hiii I’ve always been wanting a food processor, especially for breadmaking. THere are so many recipes I cant make because I dont have a food processor! I hope I win!

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My food processor recently died after more than 10 years of hard use. So, I would really love to win this one. I use a food processor a lot for things like hummus, a favorite lunch item in our household and I make a ricotta cheesecake that is to die for using a food processor. The robot-coupe food processor looks great!

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i am subscribed to your e-mail, that’s how i found out about this new giveaway!! you totally rock!

My mom has a Magimix that is more than 30 years old. She has been using it since before I was born and is still being used on a daily basis! If I won his Magimix, I would make her famous gazpacho recipe in it. If I don’t win it, I will be happy to come and wash your Magimix, Gwen! Just to be in the presence of greatness!

I tweeted about your giveaway

I’m also a facebook fan

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with my grad student budget, I could never afford to buy a food processor this nice, but I could certainly use the time savings! I’ve been on a serious hummus kick lately, so that would definitely be the first thing I made, and then I wouldn’t have to spend for the mediocre store-bought stuff.

I’m already an RSS subscriber!

As well as a facebook liker!

I mostly use my food processor for grinding almonds to make Norwegian wedding cakes. But my processor is getting so old, it’s ready to break, so I would love to win the Magimix Robot-Coupe Food Processor! Thanks for the giveaway.

I love Dutch Babies… I first learned how to make them in middle school home ec class! then I’d make them every Saturday morning for my family… these look fabulous, and the photos are stunning!

I’d use it for homemade salsa.

I have a cheapy food processor now and use it all the time – batters, purees, any number of things. I’ve been wanting to get a *real* food processor for a long time but it’s not in the budget, so this would be much appreciated!

I am already a follower on Twitter.

I tweeted about the Giveaway!

I would love this food processor! I have a really, really tiny one that came with the blender… I use it for pumpkins, soups and tomatoes. I would love to process and can more and could really use this processor!

This fancy food processor would really help out in my kitchen. I love to make fresh pasta and this would be great.

I am a big pie maker and this food processor would be a great help.

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This looked SO good that I put in my request to have it made for me for Mother’s Day breakfast. My husband and son were pretty intimidated at first, but SO proud of themselves when they saw the finished product! They even took pictures! Thanks for posting this…it made my day!

Unfortunately I don’t have a food processor but I am dying to get one. I am getting married in the fall and would love my inner chef to come out for my soon to be hubby. I would use it for everything from sauces to dough for my favorite scones! Love this site!